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Drift Away

Carolyn Legg 1966 (Cambridge)

Slowly I drift away
Into a sea of nothingness
Swallowed by lies…

The life I thought I had
Who I thought I was
Turned out an illusion…

Shattered by the pain
My heart in pieces
I can no longer sustain…

Tears no longer ease
The number written on that page
Burned into my memory
Forever…

© 2019 Carolyn A. Legg 7/7/19

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Submitted by carolynl.50097 on June 26, 2021

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Scheme XXX XXX AXA XXXX X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 310
Words 61
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 4, 1
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Carolyn Legg

I've been writing poetry since 1986. Poetry has been a life saver for me. I'm an abstract artist now but I want to start writing again. It's been a while. Thrilled that Poetry.com is back again!!! more…

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  • S.Zaynab.Kamoonpury
    S.Zaynab.Kamoonpury
    You express in a fine articulate way. But if you write so well you won't be nothingness ever. Thumbs up.

    Plz do read and comment my first poem , im a newbie here but I've been writing for ages elsewhere.
    LikeReply2 years ago

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